For anyone who wonders why I emphasized the environment

I just wrote a post with emphasis on the environment, not necessarily what people might have expected on the day after the momentous US election. Here is why:http://www.vox.com/2016/11/9/13571318/donald-trump-disaster-climate
I have no children of my own but I do love dearly a number of young people and generally feel for the plight of the young and the unborn to whom we leave this mess. Quite apart from the economic disaster that this election result is likely to produce, it does set back the recent world-wide progress on the environment, small and halting as it has been, and I find this casts a huge dark cloud over my thoughts.